Sunday, August 19, 2007

RECOVERED HISTORY/ ARKANSAS CONNECTIONS


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ARKANSAS CONNECTIONS

[Since the Democrats seem determined to nominate Hillary Clinton, we
thought we would offer a little historical context from our time line of
Arkansas and the Clintons, with particular emphasis on those things the
mainstream media forgot to tell you]

1987

According to the McDougals, the Whitewater files are transferred to the
Clintons. In the 1992 campaign, the Clintons will say they can not find
the records.

Clinton gives Arkansas Traveler awards to Contra operatives Adolpho and
Mario Calero and John Singlaub.

According to Ambrose Evans Pritchard of the London Telegraph, on August
1987 Arkansas police lieutenant Russell Welch receives a secret teletype
from the FBI office in Chicago advising him that "a CIA or DEA operation
is taking place at the Mena airport". The Sunday Telegraph had a copy of
the telex. In late 1987, Welch writes in his diary, "I feel like I live
in Russia, waiting for the secret police to pounce down. A government
has gotten out of control. Men find themselves in positions of power and
suddenly crimes become legal. National Security?!"

Two boys, Kevin Ives and Don Henry, are killed in Saline County and left
on a railroad track to be run over by a train. The medical examiner will
initially rule the deaths accidental, saying that the boys were
unconscious and in a deep sleep due to marijuana. The finding will be
punctured by dogged investigators whose efforts are repeatedly blocked
by law enforcement officials. Ultimately, the bodies will be exhumed and
another autopsy will be performed, which finds that Henry had been
stabbed in the back and Ives beaten with a rifle butt.

Although no one will ever be charged, the trail will lead into the
penumbra of the Dixie Mafia and the Arkansas political machine. Some
believe the boys died because they accidentally intercepted a drug drop,
but other information obtained by the Progressive Review suggests the
drop may have dispensed not drugs but cash -- gold and platinum -- part
of a series of sorties through which those working with US intelligence
were being reimbursed.

According to one version, the boys were blamed in order to cover up the
theft of the drop by persons within the Dixie Mafia and Arkansas
political machine. Ives mother will later charge that high state and
federal officials participated in a cover-up: "I firmly believe my son
and Don Henry were killed because they witnessed a drug drop by an
airplane connected to the Mena drug smuggling routes."

Prosecutor Jean Duffey will later tell a talk show host in answer to
whether law enforcement people were involved in the train death murders:
"I believe the law enforcement agents were connected to some very high
political people because they have never been brought to justice and I
don't think they ever will be. I think they are protected to avoid
exposing the connection. . . There have been several murders of
potential witnesses. Anyone who could have solved this murder many years
ago has been systematically eliminated."

Nine persons reportedly having information on the Ives-Henry murders
will end up dead themselves. Keith McKaskle will express fear for his
life because of the "railroad track thing" and tell his parents good-bye
before his murder. An inmate will report being offered $4,000 to kill
McKaskle. A suspect in the Ives-Henry murders will die in what initially
is thought to have been a robbery but turns out to have been a set-up.
Boonie Bearden vanishes without a trace. It is rumored he knows exactly
what had happened at the tracks. James Milam is found decapitated;
nonetheless, the state medical examiner, Fahmy Malak - who also called
the Ives-Henry deaths accidental -- will declare the other death to be
of natural causes. Jeff Rhodes will be shot, burned, and have his hands
and feet partially sawed off.

Terry Reed's plane is returned from its alleged Contra expedition but,
according to his account, he is asked not to report it because it might
have to be "borrowed" again. Reed later says that he had become aware
that the Contra operation also involved drug running and had gotten cold
feet. He also believed that large sums of drug money were being
laundered by leading Arkansas financiers. He went to Felix Rodriguez and
told him he was quitting. Reed was subsequently charged with mail fraud
for having allegedly claimed insurance on a plane that was in fact
hidden in a hanger in Little Rock. The head of Clinton's Swiss Guard,
Capt. Buddy Young, will claim to have been walking around the North
Little Rock Airport when "by an act of God" a gust of wind blew open the
hangar door and revealed the Piper Turbo Arrow.

Whitewater fails to file corporate tax returns for this year.

Harken Energy, with George W Bush on the board, gets rescued by aid from
the BCCI-connected Union Bank of Switzerland in a deal brokered by
Jackson Stephens, later to show up as a key supporter of Bill Clinton.
The deal was also pushed along by another Clinton friend, David Edwards.
Edwards will bring BCCI-linked investors into Harken deals including
Abdullah Bakhsh, who purchases $10 million in shares of Stephens
dominated Worthen Bank.

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